some language cleanup and included some reccomendations

For-Translators.md

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+Please follow these suggested guidelines when translating Tilde doc's: 
+
+This will sound like gobbledygook if you don't know [[git]], but I'm putting it
+here as a placeholder.
+
+I would suggest linking translations to the specific github commit that
+they are translating (Just by adding a line with a link to the specific
+commit on Github.)
+This means that updating translations can be as simple as:
+
+1) Diffing the "current" FAQ from the version linked by the translation to
+see what changed.
+2) Translating/updating just the parts that changed.
+3) Updating the "based on revision LINK" at the top of the translated FAQ
+
+Thus even if things go out of sync it will be very clear what went out of
+sync. And it becomes very apparent to a volunteer what needs to be done
+next.
+
+This process can be documented more intelligently than I have done here
+inside the FAQ itself, in time, if it is adopted.

IRC.md

@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@ IRC is the Internet Relay Chat.
 
 Some clients:
 
-## `irssi`
+## irssi
 
-`/join #tildechat` to get to the general channel.
+`/join #tildechat` to get to the general channel.
+
+## your favorite desktop IRC client
+
+Use [[ssh]] and port forwarding to make the connection. This [tutorial from ~agray](http://tilde.club/~agray/pages/port-forward-irc.shtml) gives the details.

Resetting-your-editor-view-when-chat-interrupts.md

@@ -2,4 +2,7 @@ You may have been caught off guard while editing and had some random chat messag
 
 `CTRL+L` will reset your view
 
-`mesg n` at the command prompt will turn off chat messages in that window.
+`mesg n` at the command prompt will turn off chat messages in that window.
+
+If you don't ever want to see wall messages on your screen, put `mesg n`
+into your startup file (details of how to do that needed here).

Usenet-news.md

@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
-We're working on it.
+We're working on it. You'll need a news server to read news, and it's up; 
+it's `news.tilde.club`.
 
-`slrn` is a newsreader; see http://slrn.sourceforge.net/ for details.
+[[slrn]] is a newsreader; see http://slrn.sourceforge.net/ for details.
+
+[[pine]] can read news; this
+[http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Help/News/PineNews.html](tutorial) might help.
+You can also read the [FAQ from U Washington](http://www.washington.edu/pine/faq/news.html).
+
+`M-x gnus` in [[emacs]] can read news, but you better know [[emacs]] first before you start.
+
+[[lynx]] reads news, a la `lynx news://news.tilde.club/tilde.general`. It can even post news, but you have to design your own headers.

Wish-list.md

@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@ When you wish upon a star, your dreams come true.
 
 Put your wish here, and someone will work on it.
 
-* [[IRC]] - tutorials
+* [[IRC]] - tutorials; using [[ssh]] port forwarding to run desktop clients
 * [[wiki]] - self-hosted on tilde.club? maybe use Gollum? (perhaps just clone a copy of the wiki to a place on tilde?)
 * [[git]] -  good tutorials for the beginner and good recipes for the advanced user

screen.md

@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 
 It's pretty handy. [[tmux]] does a similar set of things.
 
-tutorials exist for screen, (but I don't know where they are yet).
+a nice [screen tutorial](http://tilde.club/~jonathan/screen/) from ~jonathan will walk you through it.