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🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 ALL CHALLENGE COUNTRIES ACTIVE

As per NianticTintino’s post, all the challenge countries are flowing through for reviews until the end of the challenge!

(Calling this one as covering all three. German text and character, “In America” and Japanese text on the card)
🇲🇽 NEW COUNTRIES? 🇧🇷

Though Niantic hasn’t confirmed this yet, it seems some new countries have been added to the Challenge as users are reporting seeing nominations and edits from Brazil and Mexico!
LAST 24 HOURS

There’s now 24 hours left of the Q2 Wayfarer Challenge.

Still plenty of time to get 500 reviews done if you haven’t started and want the highest rewards.

If you want the Community Rewards, you do need to review at least 50 nominations from the Challenge countries.
🫥 VANISHING COUNTER 🫥

In previous challenges, the Counter of nominations done disappears as soon as the Challenge ends so we don’t expect this time to be any different.

If you have reviewed enough for the highest tier, we recommend taking a screenshot to confirm this to Niantic if needed.

As a reminder, we have a little under 90 minutes left of the challenge.
🔐BONUS LOCATION 🔒

The Wayfarer Challenge may be over but you can still freely move your bonus location.

This will be locked back down at 8pm UK time on Friday 24th, so don’t get stuck in a bonus location you don’t want to be.
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⛔️ NO SYNC? 🚫

Several users on the Wayfarer forum have mentioned that some recently accepted Wayspots (which do meet inclusion requirements for the relevant games) are not being added to Ingress/Pokémon GO, so the sync to those games appears to be off.

It’s not known if this is a bug or intentional (perhaps due to the Chicago Buried Memories Anomaly as we have seen sync switches off for Anomalies in the past) as Niantic has yet to comment about it.

Don’t say bye bye bye to those Portals & PokéStops just yet. Once sync is back on, you should see them appear at the regular sync times for the games.
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📍 SYNC FIXED 📍

Users are reporting that the usual games with a daily sync (Ingress & Pokémon GO) have now seen new Wayspots sync to the map.
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🥈 CHALLENGE REWARDS 🏆

Wayfarers are reporting seeing some rewards from the challenge including OPR Live ticks and Pokémon GO rewards.

It’s worth noting that in previous challenges if you qualify in both Ingress & Pokémon GO, those users got their codes via email in the last batch so don’t worry if you don’t see them yet. They will be sent by June 5th.

✉️ Also check your Spam/Junk/Promotions tab
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OPR LIVE & REWARDS DELAY

NianticAaron has confirmed that due to unforeseen circumstances some rewards have not been distributed including OPR Live Badge ticks.

If you don’t have all your rewards by the end of the day (approx 13 hours from this message for end of US day) please post in the linked thread.

https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/t/wayfarer-challenge-reward-update/19126
📱 NEW ICONS 📱

Reviewers have noticed some new icons on the Wayfarer Contributions page which make it easier to differentiate the different contributions at a glance.

📕- The book icon with a T is used for Title Edits
📑- The document icon is used for Description Edits
- The plus icon is used for Wayspot Submissions
🏙️ - The image icon is used for new Wayspot Photos
📍- The map pin image is used for Location Edits

How do you feel about this change?
🫂 FRIENDS 🫂

Whilst not strictly Wayfarer related we wanted to share that the Niantic Friends list which was capped at 400 and shared between all the Niantic games has increased to 450.

Source: https://community.pikminbloom.com/t/release-information-update-on-2024-6-12-jst/2311
✍️ WITHDRAW ✍️

As well as being able to see the icons on Wayfarer for the type of Contributions you can now Withdraw Edits.

This is handy if you have a long standing edit, where the title or description has already been changed.
📱 SCANNING 👁️

Whilst not part of Wayfarer, many players will scan Wayspots from their games for some in game benefits.

Some users have been unable to scan in Ingress, but updates are being made.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ingress/s/CyKBeSpLUu
🗺️ NEXT GENERATION OF MAPS 🗺️

As Niantic continue to progress with AR in their games, they have shared the below update.

https://nianticlabs.com/news/aweusa24

Of note to any Wayfarers is the attached talking about updates to the Niantic Map.
📉 RATING DROP 📉

Has your Wayfarer rating suddenly dropped even though you’ve been reviewing in line with the criteria? The team have identified an issue which has been ongoing since April 2024, and are now working on a solution which will include restoring Ratings.

https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/t/wayfinder-rating-incident/22783
📈 RATINGS INCIDENT UPDATE 📈

NianticThibs shared an update regarding the Ratings Incident (see previous post on June 21st).

We have completed the two steps of the incident remediation:

Fixing the root cause The error which was impacting the rating algorithm has been fixed and guardrails have been put in place to prevent similar situation to happen in the future.

Restoring ratings Users whose Wayfinder ratings were negatively affected by the incident should have seen their ratings restored and increased (if applicable) to what it should have been had the incident not occurred.

We are currently working on the agreements compensation, but we do not yet have an ETA to share. Thank you for your continued patience.
🟢 ABUSE MANAGEMENT 🔴

Recently, Wayfarers have posted on the forums about mass removals (just on Pokémon GO) in Spain, Poland & Australia.

NianticAaron has clarified that this is intended and part of “…our abuse management process.” and that any Wayspots that are eligible to reappear on the Pokémon GO map will do so a few days after their review.

So don’t worry if you see things vanish on your map. Please also let us know if you see this happen in Ingress!