Sorry about that. Haha. Damn fat fingers.
Inquiry From a Prospective Translator & Editor
11 days later
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.
7 days later
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.
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Verulean Nope, unfortunately. Nothing from @WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL or @Sunnnyy. I do agree with you though, at this point any answer is better than the current silence of death. Since the weekend is next, Monday or Tuesday would probably be better, like MasterRabbink said. If you don't mind my asking, Verulean, when you poked around on Discord, was it just in the general qidian_realm channel? Just my own curiosity, since my lurking about obviously missed it if so.
nothing here, they didn't contact me on skype or discord
8 days later
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.
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Verulean did you send an email to recruitment@webnovel.com?
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?
4 days later
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!
5 days later
september ended but still no news from them, it seems hopeless
raccoonway Things aren't looking particularly good, no. Do keep in mind though that this past week (first week of Oct.) has been a holiday. Golden Week.
11 days later
any news?
raccoonway Verulean Himiko_Eva Schuvi
Update: Hi everyone. I recently received contact from Sunny on Wechat regarding being an editor. I mentioned about being a translator as well, and she told me I'd be receiving contact from a team leader this week, and she will try to find a webnovel of the genre I'm interested in. I reckon everyone waiting for an update will be contacted soon.
5 days later
8 days later
Hey! Anyone still waiting for recruitment to contact them? I passed two weeks ago. Still waiting though. :(
I passed more than 10 weeks ago, and I'm still waiting
raccoonway oh damn. that's long.
f0xal3x I've been waiting since end of July, and like raccoonway I still haven't heard from anyone, despite repeated assurances from the Webnovel recruitment team that someone will eventually get in touch with me. I've pretty much given up and moved on to other things now, unfortunately. It's been 3 months, after all...
I've heard that Webnovel no longer signs independent translators, ie. all translators who pass the test will be asked to work with one of the existing translation groups. That might be the reason for the hold-up, I don't really know. The translation groups don't all pay the same rates though -- probably a combination of Webnovel paying them different rates for different books + the translation groups taking a cut for themselves -- so I'm not entirely sure how this is going to work.
To all those still waiting, good luck!
10 days later
[unknown] I ended up waiting like five months, and about a month of that was me being unemployed. I was reaching my own limit as well, so it was great news when they actually did get in touch. Probably could have been done a little quicker if I had all my ducks in a row before Golden Week hit, but, eh. As for independent translators, I can't say as I'm not one. I do know I'm not working with/editing for any groups on anything. Best of luck either way!
[unknown] Yay! I totally forgot the forums were a thing because of Discord! Thanks! Pretty nice actually, though I'm currently all edited out and just waiting around.
3 years later
LHTK I am waiting too