Creating Books from Wikipedia with Wiki-Book Bot

We tested a similar approach in-house, meant to combine public and internal knowledge.   There were of course gripes about both the reliability, completeness of the Wikipedia, and how well the internal sources had been maintained.  The automation did provide a means to quickly understand what we had, and needed to still get.    Good details at the top level article .... more technical at arXiv linked to below.

This algorithm browses Wikipedia to auto-generate textbooks  in Technology Review
Wikipedia is a valuable resource. But it’s not always obvious how to collate the content on any given topic into a coherent whole.     by Emerging Technology from the arXiv  January 9, 2019

Machine Learning—The Complete Guide is a weighty tome. At more than 6,000 pages, this book is a comprehensive introduction to machine learning, with up-to-date chapters on artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms, and machine vision.

 It is a Wikibook, a textbook that anyone can access or edit, made up from articles on Wikipedia, the vast online encyclopedia.

That is a strength. Crowdsourced information is constantly updated with all the latest advances and consistently edited to correct errors and ambiguities.  ... " 

" The last sentence is debateable.   Sometimes constantly edited, but less than consistent depending on participants, editors, the context. ...  - FAD

Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1812.10937 : Wikibook-Bot—Automatic Generation of a Wikipedia Book