Update: (on 2019w47)
* I made incorrect stats earlier today but fixed.

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ABSTRACT

• It seems the effects from the Art contest has gradually cooled down.
• Compare to 4521 (the median of weekly merits on  2019w46), the percentages of last week merits (after excluding merits distributed by theymos) is 106.7%, while the figure two weeks ago is 291.5%.
• Good news is it seems the re-allocation of sMerits for merit sources still shown good effects.

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• Total distributed merits: 17685 (see)
• Total merits sent by theymos: 8341 (= 9413-1072, see)
• Median of weekly merits before the 2019w46 (when theymos began to dump massive merits): 4521

A raw caculation from merits (with all possible effects from Art contest - excludes theymos' sent-merits, new merit sources, newly increased sMerits allocation, and the others), we have:

What does it means, guys?

It means that the forum community were extremely active last week in the way they use their merits. They sent 9344 merits more than they usually did in previous weeks (at 4521, the weekly median).

I believe that the effects from the Art Contest cooled down within the last week (2019w47), even total's theymos dumped merits concentrated in the last week (8341/9413 ~ 88.6% - only in the 10th Art contest thread).

After excluding theymos' effects, the total merits in the last week from community is 106.7% higher than previous median of weekly merits at 4521 (on the 2019w45, see).
The figure is nearly half of the last week's figure at 291.5%.

Let's wait for next one or two weeks to see how the increasing effects maintain or tail off.