diff --git a/default_labels.json b/default_labels.json
index 375a4473e26b5d1a3a0e7ccd166dd51e66f50558..62348e8b0a955c7ae94b185eeb0a22894aaa0632 100644
--- a/default_labels.json
+++ b/default_labels.json
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 [
     {"name": "Progress: Blocked", "description": "Can't be implemented, because it depends on something else", "color": "#7f8c8d"},
     {"name": "Progress: In development", "color": "#8e44ad"},
-    {"name": "Progress: Stale", "description": "Issues that were in development once, but that haven't been worked on for a long time", "color": "#ad8d43"}
+    {"name": "Progress: Stale", "description": "Issues that were in development once, but that haven't been worked on for a long time", "color": "#ad8d43"},
+    {"name": "Help wanted", "description": "An issue that new contributors could help solve. This doesn't necessarily mean that the issue is easy (not even considering that easiness is a very subjective thing), but more that the issue could give an overview of the architecture, is reasonably well-defined (so you know when you're done) or documentation exists etc.", "color": "#5cb85c"}
 ]