The OTW translators work in two tiers: the Translation Committee and the language teams. The Committee coordinates the translations and liaises with the other committees; the Committee members usually head their respective language team. The language teams vary in size (with at least one translator and one beta reader) and consist of volunteers who are either native speakers, or fluent in a language other than English.

Apart from this website, the translators also help to make other OTW projects like the Archive of Our Own accessible to an international audience.