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It's almost February in 2018, which isn't supposed to be the proper time to cycle these, but for this year it'll be once again, so we'll be refreshing the Community Promotion Ads for this year now!

What are Community Promotion Ads?

Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown.

Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?

This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:

  • the site's twitter account
  • useful tools or resources for physics research
  • interesting articles or findings for the curious
  • cool events or conferences
  • anything else your community would genuinely be interested in

The goal is for future visitors to find out about the stuff your community deems important. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are relevant to your own community's interests, both for those already in the community and those yet to join.

Why do we reset the ads every year?

Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. We reset the ads once a year, every December.

The community promotion ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a year of exposure.

How does it work?

The answers you post to this question must conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored.

  1. All answers should be in the exact form of:

    [![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]

   [1]: http://image-url
   [2]: http://clickthrough-url

    Please do not add anything else to the body of the post. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.

  2. The question must always be tagged with the magic tag. In addition to enabling the functionality of the advertisements, this tag also pre-fills the answer form with the above required form.

Image requirements

  • The image that you create must be 300 x 250 pixels, or double that if high DPI.
  • Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)
  • Must be GIF or PNG
  • No animated GIFs
  • Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB
  • If the background of the image is white or partially white, there must be a 1px border (2px if high DPI) surrounding it.

Score Threshold

There is a minimum score threshold an answer must meet (currently 6) before it will be shown on the main site.

You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats here.

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Detexify: automated LaTeX symbol recognition

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archive.org - the public library of the internet

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arXiv.org: the leading open access eprint repository

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  • $\begingroup$ Boy, the arXiv ad sure has seen better days. Though then again the vote totals are generally lower these days. $\endgroup$
    – Emilio Pisanty
    Commented Jun 12, 2018 at 12:38
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Community ads are run by the community. Come and vote!

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Quantum Computing Stack Exchange

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  • $\begingroup$ The logo font looks close to Proxima Nova but it isn't quite that, either. It doesn't fully get the t, but it does a rather better job with the Q. $\endgroup$
    – Emilio Pisanty
    Commented Mar 20, 2018 at 0:16
  • $\begingroup$ I asked on qc.meta to see if they'll make one. I'm not keeping any hopes up but it doesn't hurt to ask. $\endgroup$
    – Emilio Pisanty
    Commented Mar 20, 2018 at 0:34
  • $\begingroup$ @EmilioPisanty - This is where we seem to be discussing this: quantumcomputing.meta.stackexchange.com/a/112/278 . $\endgroup$
    – Rob
    Commented Mar 26, 2018 at 7:01
  • $\begingroup$ @Daniel whatcha think of this as an alternative? $\endgroup$
    – Emilio Pisanty
    Commented Apr 19, 2018 at 10:06
  • $\begingroup$ @EmilioPisanty I like it but I wouldn't change the community and unless the site's logo changes. $\endgroup$
    – DanielSank
    Commented Apr 19, 2018 at 16:07
  • $\begingroup$ @DanielSank a'ight =). I've made some minor edits here to tidy it up (particularly, bringing the logo font and the background to the site's standard). The Inkscape source svg is here if you want to tinker with it. $\endgroup$
    – Emilio Pisanty
    Commented Apr 19, 2018 at 16:54
  • $\begingroup$ @EmilioPisanty I like the new font and colors, but I liked the arrangement of the other one better. No big deal, obviously. $\endgroup$
    – DanielSank
    Commented Apr 20, 2018 at 6:13
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History of Science and Mathematics at Stack Exchange

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DLMF: an online encyclopaedia of special functions

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Tagline to show on mouseover

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  • $\begingroup$ The font looks better, but curious what the moon is supposed to be orbiting now? $\endgroup$
    – Kyle Kanos
    Commented Feb 27, 2018 at 11:15
  • $\begingroup$ @KyleKanos I don't think it matters too much, it's aesthetic. Quick question, do you think making the A a tripod would be too much? $\endgroup$
    – Sir Cumference
    Commented Feb 27, 2018 at 17:54
  • $\begingroup$ I think it looks fine either way. It isn't too much to have it, but I don't think it's missing anything were you to leave it as-is. $\endgroup$
    – Kyle Kanos
    Commented Feb 27, 2018 at 18:04
  • $\begingroup$ @SirCumference Didn't you make the image click-able? For example if I click on the other community ads, the link opens. $\endgroup$
    – user139621
    Commented Feb 27, 2018 at 18:48
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    $\begingroup$ @KyleKanos Well, presumably it's orbiting a Lagrange point, I should imagine. $\endgroup$
    – Emilio Pisanty
    Commented Mar 19, 2018 at 13:44
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    $\begingroup$ @KyleKanos It’s because astronomy is their world. . . . $\endgroup$
    – gen-ℤ ready to perish
    Commented Sep 13, 2018 at 4:40
  • $\begingroup$ @SirCumference the 2021 thread is now open; it'd be good to have this one there as well. $\endgroup$
    – Emilio Pisanty
    Commented Jun 22, 2021 at 12:47
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Computational Science at Stack Exchange

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SciRate

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Physics Stack Exchange Review Queue

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Retraction Watch

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Academia Stack Exchange

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Wayback Machine: experience the Web as it was

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    $\begingroup$ The font here is much smaller than it ought to - the double-sized version reads fine, but the displayed ad has a tiny font size which will be very hard to read, particularly for older users and others with even mild visual impairment. Considering how much whitespace this has, this ought to be changed. $\endgroup$
    – Emilio Pisanty
    Commented Apr 9, 2018 at 9:45
  • $\begingroup$ @EmilioPisanty I changed it. Thanks for the feedback $\endgroup$
    – Tim
    Commented Apr 12, 2018 at 5:29
  • $\begingroup$ That's definitely better. The lines look all askew to me, but that's just personal taste. $\endgroup$
    – Emilio Pisanty
    Commented Apr 12, 2018 at 7:38
  • $\begingroup$ This thread is now superseded here; you may want to re-post there. $\endgroup$
    – Emilio Pisanty
    Commented Jan 24, 2019 at 13:37
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Are your papers available in an open access repository? Check with Dissemin

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The Cost of Knowledge - join the Elsevier boycott and take back our scientific publishing!

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Engineering Stack Exchange

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A powerful graphing tool

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PhysicsOverflow

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    $\begingroup$ Due to prior experience, we're asking everyone to avoid discussion in the comment section here. Instead, use the related meta post and its chat room. $\endgroup$
    – Qmechanic Mod
    Commented Jan 29, 2018 at 22:44
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Haikus are awesome/ Chemistry is more so/ Ask straight away!

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Zotero reference manager: free and open source

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Physics Forums

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Follow us on Twitter!

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  • $\begingroup$ This is a demonstration post to indicate how this should look when an ad is posted. It also doubles as your twitter ad, but it's up to you if you wish to promote it by voting $\endgroup$
    – Grace Note StaffMod
    Commented Jan 29, 2018 at 6:17

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