diff --git a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/contrib_exp/__init__.py b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/contrib_exp/__init__.py
index e69de29bb..406c7c74d 100644
--- a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/contrib_exp/__init__.py
+++ b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/contrib_exp/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+"""
+This module contains experimental code that may go into scrapy.contrib in the
+future, but it's not yet stable enough to go there (either API stable or
+functionality stable).
+
+Subscribe to Scrapy developers mailing list or join the IRC channel if you want
+to discuss about this code.
+
+"""