title: Can you customize what contributors see on your Github project Issues tab?
body: <p>There are some things, I would like to customize for my Github projects or for projects I contribute to. There's quite a bit you can do by editing the description of the project, adding CONTRIBUTING.md, adding Issue templates etc. </p>
  
  <p>In this question I would like to focus mainly on <strong>what contributors see in the Issues tab.</strong> </p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/H1Bue.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/H1Bue.png" alt="Image 1: Hint shown on Issue tab of symfony project"></a></p>
  
  <p><sup><i> Image 1: Hint shown on Issue tab of symfony project</i></sup></p>
  
  <p>I have seen variations in the hint message that Github displays on the Issue tab (for new contributors) and I am not aware of any way to configure this. </p>
  
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  <li>Can you configure it? </li>
  <li>Why does Github sometimes only mention "help wanted" labels and sometimes "help wanted" or "good first issue" labels? </li>
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  <p>What I do know, is you only see this message as new contributor. </p>
  
  <p>What I am guessing about suggesting only "help wanted" or "help wanted" and "good first issue": the latter might be displayed, <strong>if</strong> label "good first issue" exists <strong>and</strong> there are open issues with this label. It would be nice to not have to guess about this and I can't find this answer in help.github.com.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/PN3iw.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/PN3iw.png" alt="Image 2: Hint shown on Issue tab of symfony-docs project"></a></p>
  
  <p><sup><i> Image 2: Hint shown on Issue tab of symfony-docs project</i></sup></p>
  
  <p>See also: <a href="https://help.github.com/articles/helping-new-contributors-find-your-project-with-labels/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Github Help: Helping new contributors find your project with labels</a></p>