diff --git a/gensim/models/word2vec.py b/gensim/models/word2vec.py
index 741a26e1ad..d577b28de2 100755
--- a/gensim/models/word2vec.py
+++ b/gensim/models/word2vec.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 """
 Introduction
 ============
+
 This module implements the word2vec family of algorithms, using highly optimized C routines,
 data streaming and Pythonic interfaces.
 
@@ -21,17 +22,15 @@
 
 There are more ways to train word vectors in Gensim than just Word2Vec.
 See also :class:`~gensim.models.doc2vec.Doc2Vec`, :class:`~gensim.models.fasttext.FastText` and
-wrappers for :class:`~gensim.models.wrappers.VarEmbed` and :class:`~gensim.models.wrappers.WordRank`.
+wrappers for :class:`~gensim.models.wrappers.varembed.VarEmbed` and :class:`~gensim.models.wrappers.wordrank.WordRank`.
 
 The training algorithms were originally ported from the C package https://code.google.com/p/word2vec/
-and extended with additional functionality and optimizations over the years.
+and extended with additional functionality and
+`optimizations <https://rare-technologies.com/parallelizing-word2vec-in-python/>`_ over the years.
 
 For a tutorial on Gensim word2vec, with an interactive web app trained on GoogleNews,
 visit https://rare-technologies.com/word2vec-tutorial/.
 
-**Make sure you have a C compiler before installing Gensim, to use the optimized word2vec routines**
-(70x speedup compared to plain NumPy implementation, https://rare-technologies.com/parallelizing-word2vec-in-python/).
-
 Usage examples
 ==============
 
@@ -42,17 +41,17 @@
     >>> from gensim.test.utils import common_texts
     >>> from gensim.models import Word2Vec
     >>>
-    >>> model = Word2Vec(common_texts, vector_size=100, window=5, min_count=1, workers=4)
+    >>> model = Word2Vec(sentences=common_texts, vector_size=100, window=5, min_count=1, workers=4)
     >>> model.save("word2vec.model")
 
 
-The training is streamed, so ``sentences`` can be an iterable, reading input data
-from disk on-the-fly. This lets you avoid loading the entire corpus into RAM.
-However, note that because the iterable must be re-startable, `sentences` must
-not be a generator. For an example of an appropriate iterator see
-:class:`~gensim.models.word2vec.BrownCorpus`,
-:class:`~gensim.models.word2vec.Text8Corpus` or
-:class:`~gensim.models.word2vec.LineSentence`.
+**The training is streamed, so ``sentences`` can be an iterable**, reading input data
+from the disk or network on-the-fly, without loading your entire corpus into RAM.
+
+Note the ``sentences`` iterable must be *restartable* (not just a generator), to allow the algorithm
+to stream over your dataset multiple times. For some examples of streamed iterables,
+see :class:`~gensim.models.word2vec.BrownCorpus`,
+:class:`~gensim.models.word2vec.Text8Corpus` or :class:`~gensim.models.word2vec.LineSentence`.
 
 If you save the model you can continue training it later:
 
@@ -62,14 +61,16 @@
     >>> model.train([["hello", "world"]], total_examples=1, epochs=1)
     (0, 2)
 
-The trained word vectors are stored in a :class:`~gensim.models.keyedvectors.KeyedVectors` instance in `model.wv`:
+The trained word vectors are stored in a :class:`~gensim.models.keyedvectors.KeyedVectors` instance, as `model.wv`:
 
 .. sourcecode:: pycon
 
     >>> vector = model.wv['computer']  # get numpy vector of a word
 
 The reason for separating the trained vectors into `KeyedVectors` is that if you don't
-need the full model state any more (don't need to continue training), the state can discarded.
+need the full model state any more (don't need to continue training), its state can discarded,
+keeping just the vectors and their keys proper.
+
 This results in a much smaller and faster object that can be mmapped for lightning
 fast loading and sharing the vectors in RAM between processes:
 
@@ -103,8 +104,8 @@
 full :class:`~gensim.models.word2vec.Word2Vec` object state, as stored by :meth:`~gensim.models.word2vec.Word2Vec.save`,
 not just the :class:`~gensim.models.keyedvectors.KeyedVectors`.
 
-You can perform various NLP word tasks with a trained model. Some of them
-are already built-in - you can see it in :mod:`gensim.models.keyedvectors`.
+You can perform various NLP tasks with a trained model. Some of the operations
+are already built-in - see :mod:`gensim.models.keyedvectors`.
 
 If you're finished training a model (i.e. no more updates, only querying),
 you can switch to the :class:`~gensim.models.keyedvectors.KeyedVectors` instance:
@@ -116,18 +117,65 @@
 
 to trim unneeded model state = use much less RAM and allow fast loading and memory sharing (mmap).
 
-Note that there is a :mod:`gensim.models.phrases` module which lets you automatically
-detect phrases longer than one word. Using phrases, you can learn a word2vec model
-where "words" are actually multiword expressions, such as `new_york_times` or `financial_crisis`:
+Embeddings with multiword ngrams
+================================
+
+There is a :mod:`gensim.models.phrases` module which lets you automatically
+detect phrases longer than one word, using collocation statistics.
+Using phrases, you can learn a word2vec model where "words" are actually multiword expressions,
+such as `new_york_times` or `financial_crisis`:
 
 .. sourcecode:: pycon
 
-    >>> from gensim.test.utils import common_texts
     >>> from gensim.models import Phrases
     >>>
+    >>> # Train a bigram detector.
     >>> bigram_transformer = Phrases(common_texts)
+    >>>
+    >>> # Apply the trained MWE detector to a corpus, using the result to train a Word2vec model.
     >>> model = Word2Vec(bigram_transformer[common_texts], min_count=1)
 
+Pretrained models
+=================
+
+Gensim comes with several already pre-trained models, in the
+`Gensim-data repository <https://github.com/RaRe-Technologies/gensim-data>`_:
+
+.. sourceode:: pycon
+
+    >>> import gensim.downloader
+    >>> # Show all available models in gensim-data
+    >>> print(list(gensim.downloader.info()['models'].keys()))
+    ['fasttext-wiki-news-subwords-300',
+     'conceptnet-numberbatch-17-06-300',
+     'word2vec-ruscorpora-300',
+     'word2vec-google-news-300',
+     'glove-wiki-gigaword-50',
+     'glove-wiki-gigaword-100',
+     'glove-wiki-gigaword-200',
+     'glove-wiki-gigaword-300',
+     'glove-twitter-25',
+     'glove-twitter-50',
+     'glove-twitter-100',
+     'glove-twitter-200',
+     '__testing_word2vec-matrix-synopsis']
+    >>>
+    >>> # Download the "glove-twitter-25" embeddings
+    >>> glove_vectors = gensim.downloader.load('glove-twitter-25')
+    >>>
+    >>> # Use the downloaded vectors as usual:
+    >>> glove_vectors.most_similar('twitter')
+    [('facebook', 0.948005199432373),
+     ('tweet', 0.9403423070907593),
+     ('fb', 0.9342358708381653),
+     ('instagram', 0.9104824066162109),
+     ('chat', 0.8964964747428894),
+     ('hashtag', 0.8885937333106995),
+     ('tweets', 0.8878158330917358),
+     ('tl', 0.8778461217880249),
+     ('link', 0.8778210878372192),
+     ('internet', 0.8753897547721863)]
+
 """
 
 from __future__ import division  # py3 "true division"
@@ -155,7 +203,7 @@
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 try:
-    from gensim.models.word2vec_inner import (
+    from gensim.models.word2vec_inner import (  # noqa: F401
         train_batch_sg,
         train_batch_cbow,
         score_sentence_sg,