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Convert MediaWiki to ICB

Convert MediaWiki to ICB online for free with no sign up, with quality-focused workflow guidance.

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MediaWiki at a glance

MediaWiki

MediaWiki and its wikitext syntax grew out of the Wikimedia movement and became one of the most visible markup ecosystems on the web because it powers Wikipedia and many other community and enterprise wikis.

ICB at a glance

ICB

The Truevision line grew out of EPICenter-era PC graphics boards, and several board names ended up surviving as filename extensions even when the underlying raster structure stayed close to the wider TGA family.

Format comparison

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MediaWiki
ICB
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Extensions
  • .mediawiki

  • .wiki

  • .icb

MIME type
  • text/x-mediawiki

  • image/x-icb

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Editability

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Primary use cases
  • authoring

  • review and collaboration

  • distribution

  • html

  • md

  • xml

  • wiki

  • capture ingest

  • editing

  • web or print delivery

  • bmp

  • png

  • tga

Common software
  • MediaWiki

  • Wikipedia

  • Pandoc and wiki conversion tools

  • enterprise wiki migrations

  • ImageMagick

  • legacy graphics tools

  • preservation workflows

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When to use each format

When to use MediaWiki

  • authoring
  • review and collaboration
  • distribution
  • Supports large-scale collaborative editing with link-rich and template-rich content structures.

When to use ICB

  • capture ingest
  • editing
  • web or print delivery
  • Important for long-tail compatibility with historic Truevision-era assets.

FAQs

Why convert MediaWiki to ICB?

Choose ICB as target when recovering historical raster assets from Truevision-era systems or normalizing old image archives before moving them into PNG, TIFF, or another contemporary format.

What changes when converting MediaWiki to 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.

What should I review after converting MediaWiki to ICB?

After conversion, review these destination checks: Open converted output in ImageMagick and verify behavior on real samples; Compare output against the expected depends quality profile; Weak modern software recognition compared with ordinary.tga files.

How can I keep quality stable in MediaWiki to ICB conversion?

Run representative samples, keep settings deterministic, and monitor these risks: Public documentation is mostly historical or secondary; Weak modern software recognition compared with ordinary.tga files; Validate destination compatibility before large-batch conversion.

Format resources

MediaWikiICB