Tv tropes media ID

Is there some kind of ID system for media? For example, Buffy the Vampire Slayer would be number 1, etc.

Nope, other than their page title + namespace

There are internal key values in the database but they aren't visible to anyone outside of a DBA. One of our design goals for 2.0 is to implement a system whereby articles are uniquely identified by ID regardless of title. This will help with a lot of issues, such as wick cleanup, renaming, and the like. But it's a loooooong way out if it ever happens.

edited 12th Jan '17 12:24:37 PM by Fighteer

Isn't that one of the core components of 2.0?

...I take it development isn't going so well? That's not good.

It's more a matter of finding a developer to work on the project. Have you noticed our bulletin for hiring over on the sidebar?

Ah! That's what that's for. Okay, glad to know it's still an active project.

Are there any DBA's willing to give me access to the key values?

Honestly, until you just mentioned it? No. And I'm here every day! I had to search for it.

I don't see why they'd be inclined to do so. What could you possibly use that data for?

I want to use the data to go through the list of tv tropes pages chronologically. Mainly, it's because I want to use said list as a recommendation for what order to view media in.

There is no such data. It's not available. We've been telling you that.

If you're just looking for stuff to watch/read, I think the best thing for you is to head to the various media recommendation threads and have you ask more specific questions about what you're looking for in one of them. Most of them are pinned at the top of each of the media forums, and the rest are in their own subforum (hopefully not forever, wink wink nudge nudge mods).