diff --git a/docs/experimental/index.rst b/docs/experimental/index.rst
index 32efeec7a..ebe529a34 100644
--- a/docs/experimental/index.rst
+++ b/docs/experimental/index.rst
@@ -21,3 +21,4 @@ it's properly merged) . Use at your own risk.
 
    exporters
    images
+   scripts
diff --git a/docs/experimental/scripts.rst b/docs/experimental/scripts.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c41c70068
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/experimental/scripts.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,156 @@
+.. _topics-scripts:
+
+==================
+Management scripts
+==================
+
+Scrapy is controlled by two commmandline scripts:
+
+1. :ref:`topics-scripts-scrapy-admin`: used to create Scrapy projects.  
+2. :ref:`topics-scripts-scrapy-ctl`: located in every project's root dir, used
+   to manage each project.
+
+.. _topics-scripts-scrapy-admin:
+
+scrapy-admin.py
+===============
+Usage: ``scrapy-admin.py <subcommand>``
+
+This script should be in your system path.
+
+Available subcommands
+---------------------
+
+startproject
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Usage: ``startproject <project_name>``
+
+Starts a new project with name ``project_name``
+
+
+.. _topics-scripts-scrapy-ctl:
+
+scrapy-ctl.py
+=============
+Usage: ``scrapy-admin.py <subcommand>``
+
+This script is located in every project's root folder.
+
+
+Available subcommands
+---------------------
+
+crawl
+~~~~~
+Usage: ``crawl [options] <domain|url> ...``
+
+Start crawling a domain or URL
+
+
+``--nopipeline``
+""""""""""""""""
+disable scraped item pipeline
+
+``--restrict``
+""""""""""""""
+restrict crawling only to the given urls
+
+``-n, --nofollow``
+""""""""""""""""""
+don't follow links (for use with URLs only)
+
+``-c, --callback``
+""""""""""""""""""
+use the provided callback for starting to crawl the given url
+
+
+fetch
+~~~~~
+Usage: ``fetch <url>``
+
+Fetch a URL using the Scrapy downloader and print its content to stdout. You
+may want to use --nolog to disable logging.
+
+
+``--headers``
+"""""""""""""
+print HTTP headers instead of body
+
+
+genspider
+~~~~~~~~~
+Usage: ``genspider [options] <spider_module_name> <spider_domain_name>``
+
+
+``--template``
+""""""""""""""
+Default: ``crawl``
+
+uses a custom template.
+
+``--force``
+"""""""""""
+if the spider already exists, overwrite it with the template.
+
+``--list``
+~~~~~~~~~~
+list available templates
+
+``--dump``
+""""""""""""""
+dump ``--template`` to stdout
+
+
+help
+~~~~
+Usage: ``help <command>``
+
+Provides extended help for the given command.
+
+
+list
+~~~~
+List available spiders.
+
+
+parse
+~~~~~
+Usage: ``parse [options] <url>``
+
+Parse the given URL (using the spider) and print the results.
+
+
+``--nolinks``
+"""""""""""""
+don't show extracted links
+
+``--noitems``
+"""""""""""""
+don't show scraped items
+
+``--nocolour``
+""""""""""""""
+avoid using pygments to colorize the output
+
+``-r, --rules``
+"""""""""""""""
+try to match and parse the url with the defined rules (if any)
+
+``-c, --callbacks``
+"""""""""""""""""""
+use the provided callback(s) for parsing the url (separated with commas)
+
+
+shell
+~~~~~
+Usage: ``shell [options] <url>``
+
+Interactive console for scraping the given url. For scraping local files you
+can use a URL like ``file://path/to/file.html``. See :ref:`topics-shell` for
+usage documentation.
+
+
+start
+~~~~~
+Start the Scrapy manager but don't run any spider (idle mode)
+
diff --git a/docs/topics/settings.rst b/docs/topics/settings.rst
index bd093ee17..b2e60ba29 100644
--- a/docs/topics/settings.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/settings.rst
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ It's where most of your custom settings will be populated.
 4. Default settings per-command
 -------------------------------
 
-Each scrapy-ctl command can have its own default settings, which override the
+Each :ref:`topics-scripts-scrapy-ctl` command can have its own default settings, which override the
 global default settings. Those custom command settings are located inside the
 ``scrapy.conf.commands`` module, or you can specify custom settings to override
 per-comand inside your project, by writing them in the module referenced by the
@@ -704,7 +704,8 @@ PROJECT_NAME
 Default: ``Not Defined``
 
 The name of the current project. It matches the project module name as created
-by ``startproject`` command, and is only defined by project settings file.
+by :ref:`scrapy-admin.py startproject <topics-scripts-scrapy-admin>` command,
+and is only defined by project settings file.
 
 .. setting:: REDIRECT_MAX_TIMES
 
@@ -952,7 +953,7 @@ TEMPLATES_DIR
 Default: ``templates`` dir inside scrapy module
 
 The directory where to look for template when creating new projects with
-scrapy-admin.py newproject.
+:ref:`scrapy-admin.py startproject <topics-scripts-scrapy-admin>` command.
 
 .. setting:: URLLENGTH_LIMIT