Project admin on a transliteration project can't edit wordlist

Question

I have a long-standing encoding converter transliteration project that I recently opened to re-run the transliteration and send to a colleague. Before sending it on I wanted to verify the transliterations of some new words. I am the administrator, but when I go to Wordlist it tells me in the menu that the administrator of the project has disabled my verifying words. I go into User Permissions but I can't give myself Other Permissions. I go into Project settings and Editing Enabled is grayed out. I made a new transliteration project and reran the conversion but all these same things hold true in the brand-new project.  

Answer 1

You are correct in what you are seeing. Transliteration by encoding converter projects are locked. You can do a couple of things:

1. Simply look up the word in the original project and compare visually to the transliteration.
2. You can change the project type of the transliteration to an Auxilary project and then give yourself any rights you need. You must turn on editing under Project Properties > Advanced. You should then be able to work on the word list. You can change back to transliteration when you need to update the files.
3. Note that if you change it back to a transliteration project any text changes you make to the project will get overwritten by the next update. However, the editing enabled will remain enabled (but grey) and you should be able to continue marking words in the wordlist (even though you cannot edit the text)