[Django]-Django calling no request view function in template

YOu can call the function in your view like rank = personal_rank(reuest.user) and add rank to your context then.
I wouldnt call this functions “view”-functions, since they are not dealing with a request nor are they returning a HttoResponce; they are more “helper” functions and also don’t belong to a model if they are dealing with seperate entities (eg. News & Vote). A descent place for them would be eg. utils.py. You import them from there in your views.py and call them with the user as parameter (if it’s the actual user it’s request.user).
It makes sense that you can’t access request from everywhere, because this forces you to keep more to a mvc-like design, if you need request somewhere you need to pass it on from your original view function!
You should change your last function to:

def personal_rank(user):
    personal_rank = calculate_questions_vote(user) + \
                    calculate_replies(user) + \
                    calculate_votes(user)
    return personl_rank

You could also add this last function to your User or UserProfile model class if you have something like that and then call eg. my_user.personal_rank() or my_user.get_profile().personal_rank().