This post will serve as a guide to Getting Started in translation. New translators are highly encouraged to read all of these posts in order to get a good sense of how the system works. Any new documentation will be linked from here, and this post will be linked from lj_translate.
translation-related communities responsibilities of a translation head tasks for translation heads responsibilities of a translator translation frustrations exact translations using the translation interface translating plurals translation utility paid account fairy translating cprod strings This post will also serve as a sort of "information desk". If you have any particular questions that aren't addressed in any of the above, please post a comment here. I'll either answer your question, or point you in the right direction. :)