I had a look at your profile and it looks complete
When you donāt see any tasks available on your homepage and your languages donāt appear in the drop-down menus, that just means that currently there are no available tasks in your language combinations - but we post new tasks all the time, so keep an eye out
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Good afternoon.
I took the Verified Translator test in March, and I havenāt received an answer yet. I understand that there is a backlog in some language pairs, and that probably includes mine (English to Spanish). I donāt mind waiting, but I wanted to check if my test is still pending.
Thanks.
Thank you very much for your answer, @charlotte1.
I will wait for the test results and check for tasks available to non-verified translators in the meantime.
Saludos!
I have carried out all the steps to know the score of every task that I have made. However, the general review is not mentioned. Could you please tell me what to do in this regard?
We always strongly encourage our translators to leave feedback on the translation tasks they review, but this is not mandatory - thatās why sometimes you wonāt receive any feedback or you will receive just the scores without a general comment.
I hope this helps clarify this point, but let us know if you have any further questions
Hello, everyone! I just want to thank you for having upgraded my status to Verified Translator.
Iām really happy! I will continue doing my best with the future tasks, and Iām glad to be part of this community.
I took a test for my language pair on the 5th of April (on ProZ, as instructed here) and, since I havenāt heard back from anyone, I emailed translators@translatorswithoutborders.org inquiring about it, on the 7th of June. The reply was that:
Unfortunately, your tests havenāt been reviewed yet. I will reach out to one of our volunteer reviewers to have you test fast-tracked. As soon as we have the results, we will be in touch!
I still havenāt received any news on the results of my test, but in the meantime I have completed 8 tasks on Kato. Unfortunately, not all of them were reviewed.
hi
unfortunately thereās a paradox here
since a test is no longer required your verification depends on several good reviews, however, since feedbacks on translations are optional sometimes your work is revised without feedback
on a side note i have recently came across translation contest winners being awarded verified status
thatās all i know & staff members may correct me if iām wrong
Thank you for following up on your test! Iām sorry that itās taking such a long time to get the results. If you let me know your Proz ID, I can follow up again
I can echo what the kind @soke35 has said! It isnāt obligatory to leave a review when revising a translation, however, we do strongly encourage volunteers to leave feedback and scores!
We also have translation contests, for example, we just announced the winners of the Spanish translation contest who were all upgraded to verified translators
Iāve only signed up on ProZ for the translation tests, so yesterday, when I rechecked Kato Community posts and I found out that tests arenāt a way of verifying translators anymore, Iāve deleted that account (I really hate clutter and personal information spread all over the Internet). My ProZ ID was 3049874, if thatās any help now.
I do have some reviews on my profile from a couple of people who have revised some of my translations. How many do I need? My language pair isnāt that common (EN-RO), so there arenāt many tasks available for me: months pass without seeing any (could be because I donāt have the verified status).
As to contestsā¦ again, my language pair isnāt that popularā¦
So, very few tasks available, even less for an unverified translator, and the ones who are claimed arenāt always revised. It could takes months for someone to get the verified status, time during which they canāt give 100% to this community!
Yes, we have now stopped the testing process to verify volunteers because we believe that the verification system we had in place is no longer sustainable for the size of our community!
However, we were working through the backlog of tests. Iām not sure if we can get your test back once youāve deleted it
We regularly check for volunteers who meet the threshold so we can verify them! Generally, we look for linguists who have donated over 15,000 words, with over 6 reviews and an average score of above 3.5
We completely understand that it can be frustrating to rarely have tasks available and to not receive feedback or scores. However, we do strongly encourage volunteers to leave feedback and weāre working on opening up more tasks to non-verified linguists!
Thank you for detailing the process of verifying volunteers for me! Iāll just hope thereās a sudden influx of tasks in my language pair in the next months