I trust you will not take it amiss, Arceus, if I dissent a bit from your proposals, at least as regards the administrators of this and the FanonFall wikis, insofar as I can speak for them. First off, not to be brusque, but we administrators do have other interests that we have to attend to besides FusionFall. Keeping track of two wikis, even just in terms of correcting grammar and maintaining the merest veneer of continuity—as well as the delicate task of preventing quarrels and the unpleasant necessity of smiting vandals and trolls—is a task we have to cram into the corners of our lives. To add to that FaceBook and Twitter pages (and whatever other advertisements you might advise), also presumably requiring maintenance, is simply too overwhelming for people with busy lives.
Next, even if we had unlimited leisure, I still think it would be a mistake to spread the wiki’s presence in that way, since it seems to me that we would be spreading ourselves thin and creating confusion, rather than expanding our presence. I know that I became disenchanted with the various attempts to re-create FusionFall partly because there were so frickin’ many of them. The more outlets there were promoting the FusionFall message, the less unity, not more, that I found among the fans.
Third, even if all the FusionFall fans that ever existed were to pull together, their unity, at this point, would have little effect on Cartoon Network’s future actions, particularly when (it seems to me) the majority of the fans insist on using extremely ineffective methods of approaching and persuading CN. I have seen I think, four or five online petitions addressed to CN, requesting or demanding that FF be replaced on its website. As I tried to hint above, every new petition simply demonstrates that the fans are not united, but dispersed in small groups.
Most of these petitions seem to assume, too, that CN ought to restore the game as if online we have some sort of birthright to it. I keep trying to convince people: Cartoon Network is a BUSINESS, not a kind of animation soup kitchen, handing out cartoons as charity. We would have needed to show CN why it would have been to ITS own advantage to do something with FusionFall, and not just to ours. What’s more, the tone of many of these “petitions” is so angry, self-righteous, and insulting, that if I were a CN executive, it would actually become a pleasure to deny something to “fans” like the ones who wrote them.
I don’t think petitions work. I think a more effective tactic would have been to have shown CN how we felt by flooding them with letters praising FusionFall, with fan art, fan fictions, fan letters to the games creators (actors, artists, programmers, the head of the games department, etc.), and so on. A sustained campaign of that sort, I think, might have been effective. However, I now believe that we have lost our “window of opportunity”; CN has moved on to other things, and would probably not be greatly inclined to revisit their old territory.
Fourth, there is actually a certain danger in the kind of widespread Internet presence you suggest. CN, as I said, is a business, and a business full of temperamental creative types, who tend to get extremely peeved when other people make massive use of their intellectual properties. CN may have abandoned FusionFall, but I highly doubt it has abandoned their copyrights to the characters and concepts it drew from CN’s shows. Even if we were not to make money off our activity, companies do get antsy about “brand degradation” — that is, making the stuff they own look bad. (Disney was famously savage about this. Another very well known case was the use of American Greetings' "Strawberry Shortcake" character in the online comic Penny Arcade.) In some ways, it’s best to stay beneath CN's radar.
Finally, if your principal purpose is to stimulate the production of fan works, fan unity becomes irrelevant anyway. Art is produced by individuals, not by committees. Sure, if more people heard about FF, more people might be inspired to do more pics or fics — but I suspect the quality would decline as the quantity increased. ( I wouldn’t mind seeing more “Mordecai Battles the Motorzilla: A Study In Blue and Red” or “The Ballad of Amanda Sacredprincess and the Fire Swamp”; I could do without more stuff like “Buttercup making out with Hans from Frozen” or “Dexter Meets Twilight Sparkle: A Love Story.” (Nothing against crossovers or shipping as such — just that there are a lot of bad FusionFall-In-Name-Only ones out there.)) More publicity, I find, tends to mean more mediocrity rather than more creativity.
Does this seem reasonable to you? I do want to commend you for your energy and enthusiasm. If I seem to be somewhat lacking in either, I trust you will forgive a worn-out old Suburban Ranger who has missed the jump platforms onto the Sweet Revenge a few too many times.