diff --git a/docs/topics/extensions.rst b/docs/topics/extensions.rst
index 95bedb67b..abebb5d29 100644
--- a/docs/topics/extensions.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/extensions.rst
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ your Scrapy settings. In :setting:`EXTENSIONS`, each extension is represented
 by a string: the full Python path to the extension's class name. For example::
 
     EXTENSIONS = {
-        'scrapy.stats.corestats.CoreStats': 500,
+        'scrapy.contrib.corestats.CoreStats': 500,
         'scrapy.management.web.WebConsole': 500,
         'scrapy.management.telnet.TelnetConsole': 500,
         'scrapy.contrib.webconsole.enginestatus.EngineStatus': 500,
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ how you :ref:`configure the downloader middlewares
             >>> from scrapy.extension import extensions
             >>> extensions.load()
             >>> print extensions.enabled
-            {'CoreStats': <scrapy.stats.corestats.CoreStats object at 0x9e272ac>,
+            {'CoreStats': <scrapy.contrib.corestats.CoreStats object at 0x9e272ac>,
              'WebConsoke': <scrapy.management.telnet.TelnetConsole instance at 0xa05670c>,
             ...
 
@@ -185,10 +185,10 @@ General purpose extensions
 Core Stats extension
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-.. module:: scrapy.stats.corestats
+.. module:: scrapy.contrib.corestats.corestats
    :synopsis: Core stats collection
 
-.. class:: scrapy.stats.corestats.CoreStats
+.. class:: CoreStats
 
 Enable the collection of core statistics, provided the stats collection are
 enabled (see :ref:`topics-stats`).
diff --git a/docs/topics/settings.rst b/docs/topics/settings.rst
index 0823b63fc..f1beae3a8 100644
--- a/docs/topics/settings.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/settings.rst
@@ -484,7 +484,7 @@ EXTENSIONS_BASE
 Default:: 
 
     {
-        'scrapy.stats.corestats.CoreStats': 0,
+        'scrapy.contrib.corestats.CoreStats': 0,
         'scrapy.management.web.WebConsole': 0,
         'scrapy.management.telnet.TelnetConsole': 0,
         'scrapy.contrib.webconsole.scheduler.SchedulerQueue': 0,
diff --git a/scrapy/conf/default_settings.py b/scrapy/conf/default_settings.py
index 04fee1738..0969bd046 100644
--- a/scrapy/conf/default_settings.py
+++ b/scrapy/conf/default_settings.py
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ DUPEFILTER_CLASS = 'scrapy.contrib.dupefilter.RequestFingerprintDupeFilter'
 EXTENSIONS = {}
 
 EXTENSIONS_BASE = {
-    'scrapy.stats.corestats.CoreStats': 0,
+    'scrapy.contrib.corestats.CoreStats': 0,
     'scrapy.management.web.WebConsole': 0,
     'scrapy.management.telnet.TelnetConsole': 0,
     'scrapy.contrib.webconsole.scheduler.SchedulerQueue': 0,
diff --git a/scrapy/stats/corestats.py b/scrapy/contrib/corestats.py
similarity index 100%
rename from scrapy/stats/corestats.py
rename to scrapy/contrib/corestats.py