Top of page icons are oriented vertically rather than horizontally in modern skin, causing them to be obscured by other page elements or go off the top of the page.
Example page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_%E2%88%92_2_%2B_3_%E2%88%92_4_%2B_%E2%8B%AF?useskin=modern
Reported on enwiki by Dlrohrer2003 who suggests this fix to the skin javascript:
$('.mw-indicators').children().addClass('mw-indicator')