I am not sure if the API supports querying for more than one category at a time.

One option you might want to consider is to add the Semantic extensions to your 
wiki. Then getting a list of articles that share two (or more) category is as 
simple as:

{{#ask: [[Category:X]][[Category:Y]]}}



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Sadik Khalid
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Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Category search

 <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Api>to find all pages which are in category
X

use: http://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php

example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=categorymembers&cmtitle=Category:Physics&cmnamespace=0

for more info: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API



On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Rudolf Henze <[email protected]>wrote:

> I like to find all pages which are in category X and category Y. I
> need this often,
> so I dont like to do this manually. Do I need a extension for this?
> And if so, which one?
>
> Best regards
>  Rudolf
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