WikiCite is a long‑standing community initiative within the Wikimedia ecosystem dedicated to building an open, structured, and multilingual bibliographic infrastructure through Wikidata (Nielsen et al., 2016; Rasberry et al., 2019; Lubiana et al, 2025), a central hub for free metadata on the semantic web (Sardo & Bianchini, 2021). Since its launch in 2016, and thanks to the grants provided by the Wikimedia Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (Ayers & Klein, 2021), WikiCite has brought together researchers, research evaluators, librarians and GLAM professionals, developers, and open‑knowledge advocates to collaboratively model citations, scholarly works, authors, publishers, and research outputs as linked open data.

After the end of its first 5-year-phase, marked by the disruption of the old format of conferences by the COVID-19 pandemic, WikiCite entered a phase of distributed activity (Marchetti & Pellizzari, 2024), marked also by major infrastructural changes in Wikidata, specifically the announced 2025 split of the Wikidata Query Service into scholarly and non-scholarly graphs (Lubiana et al, 2025), driven by scalability constraints. This interest prompted a reboot effort that culminated with the hosting of the international 2025 WikiCite Conference in Bern, organized with the main support of Wikimedia Switzerland and the Swiss National Library (Figure 1). This hybrid event re‑established WikiCite as a physical and virtual node for the Wikimedia bibliographic data community. More than a traditional academic meeting, the conference was intentionally designed as a participatory “knowledge space” for co‑creation, dialogue, and collaborative problem‑solving across institutional, disciplinary, and community boundaries.

A major outcome of the 2025 reboot was the development of a new strategic White Paper, authored collectively by the participants and afterwards shared with all interested stakeholders. This document serves as a state‑of‑the‑art report on the relaunch of this major community platform as a living framework for future development. It addresses themes that stress the importance of ongoing interactions between different stakeholders, such as: round-tripping between institutional and community platforms, multilingual authority control, integration with ontologies and controlled vocabularies, the challenges of defining a software infrastructure for sustaining WikiCite and Wikibase, the relationship between the GLAM sectors and Wikidata, and the future approaches to Wikidata scalability thanks to Wikibase and new ecosystems.

The poster will visually map these emerging trends and present:

1. The renewed WikiCite conference format, emphasizing hybridity, co‑creation, and community‑institution collaboration (Figure 2).

2. Key insights and visual summaries from the 2025 White Paper, including conceptual diagrams of the 40 talks in English (Figure 3).

3. Ongoing initiatives and post‑conference developments, showing the ongoing impact of the discourse started in Bern in different areas of research and activity.

By presenting the WikiCite reboot within the broader landscape, this poster aims to open a dialogue with the DARIAH community about shared challenges and opportunities. We seek feedback, collaboration, and critical engagement from the DARIAH network to strengthen this participatory model and to explore how open, community‑driven bibliographic infrastructures can support more equitable, transparent, and resilient forms of knowledge production.