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ICB to MediaWiki Converter — Free, Online, No Signup

Convert ICB files to MediaWiki online with no signup required.

Reverse conversion

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
File type

Image

Document

Extensions
  • .icb

  • .mediawiki

  • .wiki

MIME type
  • image/x-icb

  • text/x-mediawiki

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

Primary use cases
  • capture ingest

  • editing

  • web or print delivery

  • bmp

  • png

  • tga

  • authoring

  • review and collaboration

  • distribution

  • html

  • md

  • xml

  • wiki

Common software
  • ImageMagick

  • legacy graphics tools

  • preservation workflows

  • MediaWiki

  • Wikipedia

  • Pandoc and wiki conversion tools

  • enterprise wiki migrations

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..

Format resources

ICBMediaWiki

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