(Contributions page code is in core and I believe maintained by growth team). Not sure which team should be responsible for fixing.

Issue doesn't seem to impact mobile devices:

@dom_walden - how can an admin user reach to the page without using that specific link? I tried on betalabs - the admin user with enabled Minerva skin (or using &useskin=minerva) clicks on Hisotry and gets redirected to e.g. https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:History/Zilant22 which doesn't have the "Compare the selected revisions" etc controls.

https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?title=Zilant22&action=history will display the misalgned controls.

In T298988#7618601, @Etonkovidova wrote:

@dom_walden - how can an admin user reach to the page without using that specific link? I tried on betalabs - the admin user with enabled Minerva skin (or using &useskin=minerva) clicks on Hisotry and gets redirected to e.g. https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:History/Zilant22 which doesn't have the "Compare the selected revisions" etc controls.

https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?title=Zilant22&action=history will display the misalgned controls.

That's interesting. In that case I don't know. While testing I had ?title=Main_Page&action=history open, changed my skin in Special:Preferences and reloaded the history page.

I didn't realise Minerva had a different endpoint. Is it an option you can set?

In T298988#7619447, @dom_walden wrote:

In T298988#7618601, @Etonkovidova wrote:

@dom_walden - how can an admin user reach to the page without using that specific link? I tried on betalabs - the admin user with enabled Minerva skin (or using &useskin=minerva) clicks on Hisotry and gets redirected to e.g. https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:History/Zilant22 which doesn't have the "Compare the selected revisions" etc controls.

https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?title=Zilant22&action=history will display the misalgned controls.

That's interesting. In that case I don't know. While testing I had ?title=Main_Page&action=history open, changed my skin in Special:Preferences and reloaded the history page.

I didn't realise Minerva had a different endpoint. Is it an option you can set?

My test user's rights:

To summarize the steps I tested:

• an admin user changes the UI skin to Minerva in Preferences (or use &useskin=minerva, or goes to mobile)
• an admin user goes to the article and click on View history link/ button (on mobile
• an admin user is directed to Special:History page which doesn't have the "Compare the selected revisions" etc controls.

Two important notes

• • on Desktop (without Minerva skin) my test users sees the "Compare the selected revisions" etc controls.
• with ?w/index.php?title=Zilant22&action=history and Minerva skin enabled, my test user will see the "Compare the selected revisions" etc controls.
  
  The question is: can admin users see "Compare the selected revisions" etc without manipulating the url?

https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Spain?action=history&useskin=minerva is the URL you need but I don't have sufficient permissions to see the additional buttons.

Special:History is the minerva mobile history page and this appears to be about the desktop one (which is also available in the advanced mobile contributions mode).

I can replicate on https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain?action=history&useskin=minerva

Issue appears to be the rule .action-history .mw-history-revisiondelete-button { margin-bottom: 1em; } so I guess this is in Minerva and actually a readers web issue:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/skins/MinervaNeue/+/6f18417fab72ad5574d6fba65fbf2fe09581f557/skinStyles/mediawiki.action.history.styles.less#70