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This website is created by language Advocates for Khan Academy; it doesn't represent the official position of Khan Academy; please consider it a fan site. Thanks go to KA Deutsch, the team driving the German efforts, for hosting this site and many other helpful tools.

It is meant to share best practices for achieving success with localization, awareness and adoption of KA around the world. For help and guidelines for all translators, please see Zendesk.

Updates from Khan Academy

• Product Updates
• Content Updates
• Content Changes
• KA's wider thinking: Long Term Research
• Design Guidelines
• Data Sharing and Access Guidelines

Running the project (was Best Practices for Awareness & Adoption)

• Organizing a team: Paid translations, CrowdSourcing Volunteers, Project organization & leadership
• Funding:Finding parters, Crowdfunding How-to
• Congratulations! You now run a start-up.: How to survive...
• Language projects: Bulgarian, German, Polish, Czech, Swedish,Spanish,Portuguese-BRA,Portuguese,Korean,Turkish,Serbian,Greek,Japanese,French

Translation

• Guidelines: tbd, New country checklist
• Crowdin: Translation Basics, Translation Tools, Number Formatting, Decimal signs, Image Translation, Work Arounds, Linter, Machine translation
• Subtitles:YouTube,Amara
• Videos: Videos with KA Exercises, Letter template for hiring video editor
  • Software: Audacity
• Platforms: Mobile site
• Tools: Apruvr, dALEK, KATranslationCheck, KAPolyglott

Awareness and Adoption

• Marketing guidelines
• Communication: Social Media Communication, Newsletter, Email campaigns
• Adoption: Remote mentorship

Collaboration

• Product: KA roadmap, KA translation roadmap
• KA HQ initiatives: Chameleon, Content freezing
• KA Product development suggestions: Micro-KA
• International initiatives: Arabic, EU funding, IB School - CAS Program, Dirty Curriculum
• "Competition" and "next-gen" Innovations , "emerging tech" to watch/ didactics/content: Innovation and "competition",
• Notes: Sofia in October 2016

To-Do's

things that benefit everyone ( Feel free to do/ comment/ add)

• DONE! Video:Intro to Crowd-in and how to translate( screen capture) Translate Khan Academy on Crowdin- Basics
• Video:Videoediting/ dubbing/ remakes for dummies
• Explanation of how Chameleon will function for creating Localized Curriculums
• what to do in what order
• how to run a crowdfunding campaign
• create a good checklist for new countries
• Create/ find a video( approx 50-120 secs) that can be used as crowdfunding or marketing video blank, for all countries, to possibly be voiced over, or that works as is...
• What is the most useful/ free tool chain to handle on boarding/volunteer/ donor/ partner/school/ teacher management: Signups on homepage ( capture) & enter data into CRM based( free?) system & send automated welcome mail & followup mails& send newsletters/ hangout meeting bookings etc. what else do we need? keep track of crowdin ID and ( maybe too hard: deliveries)... ( Answer could be: mailchimp+ civicdm or something like that, if it works)

About this Wiki

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For KA translation questions, please contact Joy or Jake. For technical wiki questions, please contact Daniel or Alain. We also keep Admin notes.

Housekeeping: please pick a username that is easy to link to you, e.g., dcholakov or Alain_Schaefer‎. If your application isn't approved within a couple days, please email us.