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ICB at a glance
ICB
Convert to ICB when recovering historical raster assets from Truevision-era systems or normalizing old image archives before moving them into PNG, TIFF, or another contemporary format.
It is mainly a compatibility target for legacy graphics collections.
MediaWiki at a glance
MediaWiki
Wikipedia and MediaWiki content editing, wiki platform content authoring, and migration of wikitext to Markdown or other document formats.
Format comparison
| Feature | ICB | MediaWiki |
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| File type | Image | Document |
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| Compression / quality | depends | depends |
| File size characteristics | medium | medium |
| Compatibility | broad | broad |
| Editability | moderate | moderate |
| Created year | 1991 | 2002 |
| Inventor | Truevision | Magnus Manske, Lee Daniel Crocker (MediaWiki developers) |
| Status | active | active |
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| Archival suitability | moderate | strong |
| Metadata handling | moderate | moderate |
| Delivery profile | strong | strong |
| Workflow fit | delivery | exchange |
| Vector scaling | Not supported | Not supported |
When to use each format
When to use ICB
- capture ingest
- editing
- web or print delivery
- Important for long-tail compatibility with historic Truevision-era assets.
When to use MediaWiki
- authoring
- review and collaboration
- distribution
- Supports large-scale collaborative editing with link-rich and template-rich content structures.
FAQs
Why convert ICB to MediaWiki?
Wikipedia and MediaWiki content editing, wiki platform content authoring, and migration of wikitext to Markdown or other document formats.
What changes when converting ICB to MediaWiki?
This conversion changes how the format behaves in downstream tools and delivery environments.
Archival profile changes from moderate in ICB to strong in MediaWiki. Workflow profile changes from delivery in ICB to exchange in MediaWiki.
What should I review after converting ICB to MediaWiki?
Check the exported file for Syntax can become complex once templates, parser functions, and wiki-specific conventions accumulate.; Markup behavior is tightly coupled to the MediaWiki software ecosystem..