You could do something exactly like this very, very easily using Semantic 
MediaWiki and Concepts.
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On Jan 24, 2014, at 9:55 AM, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Jan 24, 2014 1:54 AM, "Yuri Astrakhan" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi, I am thinking of implementing a
>> 
>> #CATQUERY <query>
>> 
>> magic keyword for the category pages.
>> 
>> When this keyword is present, the category page would execute a query
>> against the search backend instead of normal category behavior and show
>> result as if those pages were actually marked with this category.
>> 
>> For example, this would allow Greek Philosophers category page to be
>> quickly redefined as
>> a cross-section of greeks & philosophers categories:
>> 
>> #CATQUERY incategory:Greek incategory:Philosopher
>> 
>> Obviously the community will be able to define much more elaborate
> queries,
>> including the ordering (will be supported by the new search backend)
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> I like the idea in principle, but think the syntax could use bikeshedding ;)
> 
> If we use this as category pages, im a little worried that people could get
> confused and try to add [[category:Greek philosophers]] to a page, and
> expect it to work. We would need good error handling in that situation
> 
>> including the ordering (will be supported by the new search backend)
> 
> Cool. I didnt realize search would support this. That's a pretty big deal
> since people expect there categorirs alphabetized.
> 
> Another cool project would be to expand intersection/Dyanamic Page List
> (Wikimedia) to be able to use search as a different backend (however, that
> extension would need quite a bit of refactoring to get there)
> 
> -bawolff
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