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Hi, I managed to pass the translator and editor test in July. After I gave my contact details (my mobile phone number and Wechat ID), I was told I'd be contacted by a representative within the month, but now it's already August. From previous experience, I know it's easy for something to go wrong when adding overseas contacts to Wechat, and I was wondering if that was the issue. I hope I'll be contacted and can get started soon. Thank you.

LHTK first July, mid July or end July? If you contacted at mid July then maybe you should wait for at most 2 weeks

Thanks for the reply. I got my results back mid July. I'll wait and see what happens.

I passed the translator's test in July, too! :)

I gave Qidian's recruitment team my Skype contact but didn't hear from anyone for about a week. I then emailed them to ask about it and they said the person in charge of assigning novels to translators is really busy right now, but will get in touch with me by the 15th of August.

Hope that helps! I personally can't wait to get started either!

Be careful we, the reader, wants the perfect editing. Gwahahaha.

Prepare to be flamed in forum if you fail. Evil Laugh

That is a hard job. Good luck. Oh man being an editor means you get early chapters, right? Envy. Gwahahaha.

Thanks for the info Verulean. Great to hear you passed the test the same time as me. Hopefully, neither of us disappoint and end up getting flamed!

@LHTK Hey! Just wondering if you've heard from Qidian / Webnovel yet? There's still about a week (or 4 business days?) before the 15th of August, but I still haven't heard from anyone on Skype sooo I'm beginning to get a little worried myself... <__<;;

Are you manna from heaven?... Translators and editors, please Quindan, Martial Arts Master novel ran out of translated chapters and and is direly in need of a translator or maybe an editor too by now. Could you PLEASE check out this novel? I assure you the readers of this novel are the appreciative kind not to mention desperate!!

Ply Manna from the heavens XD I honestly don't know what's going on with Martial Arts God, but I feel your pain.

I'm still waiting for someone to get in touch with me on Skype so I can start translating! I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt and will be waiting till the 15th before shooting them another email, but I have the sinking suspicion they've forgotten all about me...

Verulean Sorry for the late reply. No, I haven't heard anything yet, but hopefully that'll change soon. Like you, I'm planning to send them another email after the 15th.

What's it like being a translator/Editor?

On a scale of 1 - 10,
1 being 'Horrible Beyond Meaning'
5 being 'Shrug Eh'
10 being 'Super Fascinating Rainbow'

Also, why would you want to become a translator/Editor?

Misguided_Rooster Getting extra money while reading webnovel is a good reason.

Potential for almost 'non-existent' future 'licensing' for manga/tv serial/movie/game probably. That what was advertised in other sites.

LHTK Thanks, that's all I wanted to know :) I'll be sure to bump this topic and let you know as soon as they get in touch with me. I'm paranoid about being the last one left in the playground -- you know, like when you play hide-and-seek with your friends, and then you wait and wait and wait and then it turns out everyone already went home without you... Okay, so that never actually happened to me when I was younger, but you get the idea...

Misguided_Rooster It depends on what you're translating, to be honest. I've worked as an in-house translator in animation companies, translating order sheets, instructions, and feedback from clients, and while the pay wasn't TOO bad, most of the work was mind-numbingly boring. I've also translated interviews and side materials for certain fandoms (I won't say which) in my free time, and that was much more interesting, even though I wasn't getting paid a single cent for any of it.

As for my reasons for joining Webnovel as a translator: I want to write and publish a series of novels of my own, one day, and I find that translating webnovels is actually a good way to get the creative juices flowing, especially after having been stuck translating (mostly) technical stuff for a while. I've been practicing with a few webnovels, and quite a few times I've had to stop and think about how to phrase something so it sounds more natural in English. I've also had to look up a few words, just to make sure I'm using them correctly -- only to discover I've been wrong the whole time! VERY embarrassing.

I don't know if I'll be able to choose which webnovel to translate (I highly doubt it), but as long as the story's interesting that would be an instant 9 or 10 for me. If the writing is extremely terrible and/or glorifies rape or pedophilia, that would definitely be a 1: "Horrible Beyond Meaning" for me...

MasterRabbink cough I'm won't argue with that. Money is always nice to have cough

@LHTK
Update: Sent another email to the recruitment team 3 days ago (14th of August), no response yet so far.
Made a Discord account and asked around on the WN server. CKTalon replied, and it seems that someone will only get in touch with me next month. They're in the middle of implementing new policies, I think (I didn't ask about the details).

I'm bumping this topic just in case there are other translators out there who also passed the test in the last two months but haven't heard from Qidian / Webnovel. It's going to be a loooong wait, hopefully they won't have forgotten all about me by then...

Perhaps you should try FB group. It seems Webnovel admin are there. Only devs are here.

Thanks for the info Verulean. Haven't been able to get any response, so your post really helped. Hopefully, they get things going sooner rather than later.

Can you do some editing for me?

SweetsTomato
I would love to. And I mean for anyone at this point.

LHTK MasterRannink

It is Rabbink. Gwahahaha. Yep. This is weekend.

B-B-B-BUMP!

Still waiting for an official response from Webnovel...

@WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL
Please don't forget about us T___T

I'll just leave this here to keep tabs on this thread (and also not be forgotten!) For just a bit more information, I sent my test (editor) back late may, and got my results around the 11th of June. Thus the wait began...

I'm another translator who passed the test and waiting to be contacted by them, I got my result on 21 August.
I just want to ask if it's normal that I got the autoreply mail 'Thanks for your test return, and we will inform you of the result ASAP.' once again after I sent them my contact info.

Schuvi
You've been waiting since 11th of June? That's some serious patience o__O

raccoonway
Hmm, that doesn't sound right. Here's what happened for me:

July 24th : Received an email from recruitment@qidian.com stating that I passed the test and asking that I provide my contact details. Replied to this email with my Skype address. No response whatsoever: no automated reply, nothing.

July 31st : Sent an email (under the same conversation) asking whether they can give me the Skype contact for their WN representative instead. Received a reply the very same day stating that the person in charge of assigning novels to me is really busy with recruitment work, but will get in touch with me by 15th of August.

August 14th: Sent them another email (also under the same conversation), this time with the username for my newly-created Discord account, just in case they would prefer to get in touch with me on Discord. No response. Still waiting for a reply to this.
Got on Discord and asked whether Webnovel hasn't gotten in touch with me because there are too many translators and they don't actually need me at the moment; CKTalon replied with "it's complicated" and said someone will probably get in touch with me in September. I don't remember the exact quote now but he said something about Webnovel being in the middle of implementing new policies.

Aaaaand I'm still waiting. If anyone has received a different response, please share!

Verulean Ayup. That's when I was told 'congrats/you passed'. Though it wasn't 'til like July 3rd that I got the introductory 'hi' message on Discord, but nothing after I responded. I'll likely venture into the Discord server myself mid-September or so if nothing happens still.

raccoonway I don't remember the exact details, but I did receive the autoreply several times during the whole email chain. I usually got a reply (except my latest Aug. 17th mail) within the same day, so I wouldn't worry over the autoreply.

BUMP! Anyone heard from @WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL yet?

I will be bumping this thread every Friday to hopefully get WN's attention. I'll send them another email and ask on Discord too. I hate to be such a bother, but at this point I just want to know if I should continue to wait or just move on =/

Verulean Friday is a bad day. Start on Monday or Tuesday.

Verulean webnovel will never respond directly, except for minor things.

nothing here, they didn't contact me on skype or discord

any news?

raccoonway None for me. They mentioned/'complained' in TGIF #32 about many of the translators/editors not being full-time, thus the mass releases aren't easy. That's about the closest to news I've seen, which bodes well for my recent unemployment. Yay! orz

Update:
I sent WN another email last Friday and received a reply on the same day; they said the recruitment team leader was away on sick leave but will get in touch with me next (this) week. I was going to post this on the topic last Friday but I had problems logging in.

I still haven't heard from anyone so far. I messaged both Sunny and Team Webnovel on Discord about an hour ago but haven't gotten a response from either of them. To those of you still waiting, my advice would be to send them another email ASAP to hopefully speed things along.

raccoonway I've been using the same email thread / conversation the whole time, beginning with the notification of my test results from recruitment@qidian.com. And no, I still haven't heard from anyone... I'll shoot them another email later, when it's noon for them.

Have they been communicating with you through recruitment@webnovel.com instead? I wonder if one of the addresses simply forwards to the other? The webnovel.com one sounds more recent to me, but I guess you could try using the qidian.com address if you haven't had any luck so far.

The wait is killing me :/

they have been communicating with me through recruitment@qidian.com.

Hi, I also passed the Translation Preview Assessment but have yet to receive any response from them after providing the contact details.
Was wondering if there have been any updates so far?

Still nothing from either Sunny or the Webnovel recruitment team...

This thread by Sunny seemed promising but she doesn't seem to have replied to anyone yet =/
https://forum.webnovel.com/d/12398-description/

There are a lot more translators and editors in limbo than I thought, I guess that's why Sunny is taking so long to get back to us!

september ended but still no news from them, it seems hopeless