User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Technical Update: December 11, 2012/@comment-452-20121211163308/@comment-188432-20121211175139

Well, I'm glad that the default name is going to be shorter, and therefore match the singularity of "videos". The word "new" was always kinda surplus to requirements. I think everything under "On the Wiki" should be one word only: Activity, Random, Videos, Photos, Chat, Forum. Obviously I could probably change this by digging around the MW messages, but I'm talking about the default condition.

I don't mind about the ubiquity of the word "photos" when they really mean "files", because again this can all be changed in the MW messages, and for most wikis "photos" is an "accurate-enough" name. There aren't too many wikis — and yours may be exceptions — where the distinction is critical. I know that w:c:memoryalpha has changed every MW reference to "file", but they have a goodly number of sound files, and Star Trek fans tend to be more computer literate — which is to say, um, concerned about the difference between a file and a photo.

What I actually hate is that the namespace is called "file", because to my mind, a file is any discrete record of any type on a computer. Articles are files, just ones delivered principally by text. I personally would prefer ns:6 to be called "Media". I assume there's a good reason that it's not — maybe to avoid confusion with MediaWiki? — but that would seem more accurate than "file".

Course, it's doubtful that Wikia would ever go away from the MediaWiki default for ns:6, as it would likely mean an extra step every time they upgraded the MW software. (Plus, would Wikia really be prepared to part company with Wikipedia on such a basic part of the core software?) So we're likely stuck with File. Still, if I were to change my MW message text away from "photos", it would be to "media", not "files".